During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year, BMW provided a sneak peek of its Neue Klasse architecture with the I Vision Dee concept.
Nevertheless, the first production model won’t be available to the public until 2025.
Throughout the BMW Group Annual Conference 2023, the German luxury brand BMW revealed new information regarding its plans to implement and develop its next-generation platform during the decade’s second half.
BMW’s new EVs to be available by early 2028
In the second half of 2025, manufacturing will begin at the brand-new Debrecen (Hungary) factory. In 2026, the Munich plant in Germany will follow suit. In 2027, the San Louis Potosi plant in Mexico will be the first to assemble NE-based vehicles. Both of these plants are located in North America.
BMW has announced that it plans to release at least six electric vehicles within the first twenty-four months, which means that all of these vehicles should be accessible by the end of 2027 or the beginning of 2028.
According to a previous announcement, BMW’s Spartanburg factory in the United States will produce at least six electric cars by the year 2030, all of which will be based on the Neue Klasse platform.
BMWBlog reports that the first electric vehicles to use the wholly redesigned platform will be a sedan and an SUV in the 3 Series segment.
The company manages to sell an i3 Sedan (only in China) and an iX3 (only in some markets) on the CLAR platform. Still, their replacements must be great international products.
BMW to surpass its annual sales by 50% in 2030
BMW aims the yearly sales of electric vehicles to surpass 50 percent by 2030. Demand will be stimulated by the Neue Klasse models that will follow this year’s CLAR-based i5 sedan and the 2024 iX2 and i5 Touring announced today.
The short-term objective is to achieve a share of electric vehicles of 15% by 2023. The proportion is anticipated to rise to 20% in 2024, 25% in 2025, and 33% in 2026.
As a final point of interest, the BMW Group’s MINI and Rolls-Royce brands will stop selling vehicles powered by internal combustion engines by the year 2030.
The Oxford-based marque will expand its lineup of EVs by introducing an electric Countryman in 2019, followed by the launch of a more compact Aceman in 2024.
RR has an electric model available in the form of the Spectre.
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